Tuesday’s schedule

In another battle between Class A contenders, I’ll be heading out to see John Jay take on Lakeland today. These are two teams that I see as top 10 at the moment (my new rankings come out on Monday), and I’m very curious to get a look at each squad in a game situation. For live updates, follow me on Twitter @vzmercogliano, but to get every little detail, be sure to follow as I score each pitch on iScore. Just use the log-in information below to access the live gamecast:

VINCENT Z. MERCOGLIANO has been with The Journal News and LoHud.com since March 2010. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 2005 and from Hofstra University in 2009 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He currently covers boys soccer, wrestling and baseball, while assisting with LoHud’s Yankees coverage. He also enjoys the outdoors, good music and a wide variety of sandwiches.

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EdC

Very exciting game between Arlington and Beacon. There was plenty of offense to go around, highlighted by a 3 run bomb by Arlington’s catcher off of Beacon ace, Tony Romanelli. In the end, Beacon held on to win 8-7 and open the season 2-0 with wins over 2 class AA schools (Carmel was the other). Next up us JJEF at the stadium on Thursday.

Beacon 8 arlington 7. Most beacon runs unearned due to 3 costly arlington errors. Romanelli gave up 6 earned runs in 5 innings. Beacon won because they played a cleaner, spirited game and had many 2 out hits with risp.

The turn out for the game was tremendous. Plenty of fans on both sides. Why two Arlington fathers planted themselves in the middle of the Beacon side is beyond me, but they were silent as the last out was recorded. That was sweet.

This is a horrible loss for Arlington. Beacon lost 5 players from last year’s lineup and they still put up a snowman on Arlington. There won’t be too many games that Romanelli gives up that many runs and you have to win them when he does. Crushing defeat for the reigning AA champs.

The 2 out hits were tremendous. They came in an inning extended by cf dropping fly ball. I think that makes them unearned. Starter did not finish 2nd inning. It is a long season. Losing to an acc commit is no shame. Playing sloppy game is, though. Arlington has a way to go.

I am not his dad. I’m calling it like I saw it. I don’t see it as an error. I see it as a ball that a really good CF would have caught. But you don’t rule errors because a player isn’t good enough to get to a ball crushed over his head.

You must be the starting pitcher’s dad. Understood. Good luck the rest of the way.

EdC, Call me a tough scorer, but yes I score that an E. CF got turned around but was still able to get to the spot and had the ball in his glove. How is that not an error? In the end, who cares? I’m sure both dugouts had it scored differently in that never ending quest to pad high school stats. Good win for Beacon either way.

MSG Varsity had it as an error as well. But they also had this as a league game. Perhaps Arlington expects more of its outfielders. Does not really matter though. Beacon was 1 run better. After getting down 6-0 with sloppy defense and ineffective pitching, Arlington fought back hard and had plenty of chances to win, but did not come through.

OK, so it is not ok for mamk to complain when they don’t complete a playoff game. But its ok to put the blame on a CF high schooler who missed a tough chance in the outfield.
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